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Intellectual property rights over plants and seeds opposed

Intellectual property rights over plants and seeds opposed
Karachi
February 12, 2021
Leaders of the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity on Wednesday criticised the Ministry of National Food Security and Research’s recent decision to start the registration process for granting intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plants and seeds under the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act, 2016 and said that the act would take away farmers’ centuries-old traditional rights of saving and selling seeds.
Roots for Equity’s chairperson Dr Azra Sayeed and PKMT leaders Raja Mujeeb and Asif Khan, while addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, said that as a result of national and transnational seed corporations claiming intellectual property rights over seeds, not only would the country become dependent on corporations for national food security and food sovereignty, but the royalties paid to transnational corporations for IPRs would massively ....

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PKMT organises conference on impact of pandemic

PKMT organises conference on impact of pandemic
National
December 28, 2020
SUKKUR: The 13th Annual Conference on “Impact on Peasants and Labourers during the Pandemic” was organised by the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) through video link.
While talking about the national and global impact of Covid-19, Dr Azra Talat Syed, Roots for Equity, said the global capitalist system was responsible for the pandemic. She said they were struggling to fight one pandemic, whereas scientists worldwide are already predicting the outbreak of multiple similar pandemics in the future due to the widespread deforestation caused by capitalist greed. She said the viruses found in animals, residing deep in the forests, have now been spreading among the humans due to capitalist investors relentlessly cutting the forests. ....

Azra Talat Syed , Annual Conference , Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , அஸ்ரா தாலத் சையத் , ஆண்டு மாநாடு , பாக்கிஸ்தான் கிஸ்ஸன் மஜிதூர் தெஹ்ரீக் , கைபர் பக்துங்க்வ , சர்வதேச பரவல் ,